Members Only Exhibitions

Enter these members only exhibitions -

Keswick and our 2nd Regional Exhibition at Richmond, Yorkshire

Two more opportunities to exhibit your coloured pencil pictures at our members only exhibitions - we look forward to receiving your entries.

The Pencil Museum, Keswick
29 August - 3 October 2015
Closing Date 19th July 2015

Members may enter 1 picture free of charge.


The Station Gallery, Richmond, Yorks
2nd UKCPS Regional Exhibition
3-14 October 2015
Closing Date 10th August 2015

Members may enter up to 5 pictures - £5 per picture

Rules and Entry Forms can be found on our website.

UKCPS Member Exhibition

UKCPS member Graham Brace's exhibition during the next month with seascape artist, Clive Gould) is currently showing at The White Lion Street Gallery until 28th July. If interested, you can view the show online with the following link...

http://www.artmatters.org.uk/artist/shared-vision

Pencil Art Society

Congratulations to Tiffany Budd and Alan Woollet who have been accepted into the inaugural Open Juried Exhibition at the Pencil Art Society!

http://pencilartsociety.com/2014/06/16/pas2014-acceptedartists/

Peoples' Choice Award at Patchings

    There is still time to vote on line for the People's Choice Award for the Patchings Exhibition. Entries were made to either The Leisure Painter category, for beginners and amateurs, and The Artist category, for experienced amateur and professional artists. Seventy selected works from each category were chosen to be exhibited in two separate galleries at Patchings Art Centre, which are open until 20th July. In addition, 50 highly commended works in each category are featured in the on line exhibition. 

               When voting, there are four categories: The Artist, which is for pictures that were selected and hung at the exhibition, and the Artist Highly Commended (on line only); and Leisure Painter and Leisure Painter Highly Commended. You are only allowed one vote for the TA/TAHC category and one vote for the LP/LPHC category. 

UKCPS members in The Artist Highly Commended Gallery are:
Lesley Sharman (Blue Door);
Peter Nelson (After a Long Hot Day);
Sue Clinker (Tamil Nadu Man);
Irina Garmashova-Cawton (Puma)
and Suzy Herbert (Tomatoes).

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UKPCS members in The Leisure Painter category are:
Abigail Jones (Autumn);
Alison Perkins (Sweet Dream);
and Lesley Woodhouse (Summer Medley)

Marina Balint (Romanian Easter Eggs) is in the Leisure Painter Highly Commended category.

UKCPS Members' Success at Patchings!

Congratulations to Abi Jones' whose drawing 'Autumn' has won the Derwent Pencil award at Patchings art festival.

Congratulations to Julie Maguire who also won a prize.

Patchings Success for UKCPS Member

Lesley Woodhouse's coloured pencil drawing 'Summer Medley' has been accepted for the Leisure Painter category at Patchings 2014 competition/exhibition.

Many congratulations!

Patchings Success for UKCPS member and LAC student!

UKCPS Member and London Art College student, Julie Maguire,  enjoys success at Patchings!

Malcolm Cudmore News

"Moments in Time"

Tuesday 20th May to Saturday 14th June

  For the first time ever (despite having been together for almost 40 years!),
Malcom Cudmore and his wife Lorry are having a joint exhibition at
The Fisher Theatre in Bungay.

Starting with an evening opening on Tuesday 20th May it runs through to the end of Saturday 14th June, the exhibition will feature Lorry's ceramics, most of Malcom's large coloured pencil paintings on wooden panels and a few smaller works including the framed
"epic" Bungay Panorama picture
and
Little Toby Dreams of Albrecht Durer
which won the UKCPS President's award
at the UK Coloured Pencil Society 2014 Open International Exhibition.
They would love to see you at the opening evening between
6.00 pm and 8.00 pm on Tuesday 20th May -
where they'll be happy to offer you a drink and a crisp!

If you can't make it to the opening night, the exhibition is open from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm Monday to Saturday and from 6.00 pm on days when there is an event in the theatre. The Fisher Theatre is a well used, multi-use venue and occasionally the gallery is used for meetings and not open for viewing - so it is always worth checking (especially if you are travelling any distance) that the exhibition is fully open before you make a special journey.
www.fishertheatre.org
(01986) 897130

This year, Malcom was accepted as a member of the Harleston and Waveney Art Trail, a collective of 40 independent professional artists all living within roughly a 10 mile radius of the Suffolk town of Harleston on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.

He  shall be hosting his open studio" at home
over the bank holiday weekend of 24th-26th May
and the following weekend 31st May/1st June.

A Trick in the Tale
2 Anchor Cottages
Wainford Road
Bungay, Suffolk NR35 1TA
United Kingdom

   With most of his large coloured pencil work on display at the same time in Bungay, and limited space at home he will be showing smaller plein air landscapes, figure paintings and drawings and a offering a range of giclée prints, greetings cards made from his original works and his "Yes You can Draw" DVD sets and starter kits.

Don't miss it!

RHA Botanical Art Exhibition at Malvern Spring Show

Many congratulations to Janie Pirie who has been awarded a Gold Medal at the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition at the Malvern Spring Show. Janie exhibited six new pieces of work in coloured pencil and received her second Gold medal. Her first was awarded in 2009.

Janie would also like the UKCPS membership to know that there are lots of amazing exhibits of coloured pencil works at the SBA this year.  "The news is spreading that water-colour isn’t the only way to go!!" 

Many congratulations Janie - an amazing achievement!

Jacksons/Strathmore Wonders of Winter Competition

Many congratulations to both France Baudin and Judith Selcuk who placed 1st and 2nd respectively in the Jackson Art Supplies and Strathmore Wonders of Winter Competition!

This is a wonderful achievement for both and a wonderful result for Coloured Pencil Art.

The Artist and Leisure Painter Butterfly Competition

Many congratulations to Edwin Thornber who was also selected as a winner in The Artist and Leisure Painter Butterfly competition! Edwin also had two pictures accepted into the 13th Open Exhibition.

The Artist and Leisure Painter Butterfly Competition

Many congratulations to Bev Lewis for being selected as a winner in the competition!

You can visit the competition winners here.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to member Alan Jones whose step-by-step of Lion Cub has a 3 page feature in Ann Kullberg's CP Magazine!

Lin Goodwin - Painters Online

It's always nice to get good news about members achievements.

This from Lin Goodwin:

I know you like to let people know when CP has been given some notice.

 

Well last month I decided to upload some of my work to the Painters Online gallery for 'The Artist' magazine.

 

Each month they pick a selection as 'pictures of the month'. I don't know if these go into either of their magazines, but they are anchored to the front page of the gallery on their website. They also archive them each month.

 

TWO of my paintings have been selected. One is Oil Pastel (another minority medium) But the portrait of Miss Patty's enigmatic smile is done in  Pure Coloured pencils.

 

https://www.painters-online.co.uk/Gallery/

 

I'm happy to fly the flag for Coloured Pencils.

 

This is actually an older piece, but it was one of the one's in my exhibition last year

 

NEWA Exhibition

I went to view the NEWA exhibition yesterday (22nd July).  As usual, it is an excellent exhibition with nearly 400 entries.  CP and graphite pencil are all well represented (I counted 13 coloured pencil works).

 In particular, it is nice to see that of the 24 pictures featured in the printed catalogue, 3 are colour pencil (including Bev Lewis's 'King of the Reef' - well done Bev!).

 

Well done also to Kris Owen, and Jo Goudie --  all your entries look much better when seen in real life.

You can see their entries in my previous post on 17th July!

The exhibition is on til Sunday 4th August, at Gordale Nursery, Chester High Road, Burton, Wirral, CH64 8TF.

The exhibition website is : www.newa-uk.com

Victoria Parsons - BBC Wildlife Artist Competition

Regular readers may have seen my post of 18 April 2013 regarding Victoria Parsons being chosen as a finalist in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year completion [if not - read it now!].

Congratulations then to Victoria:-

Just a quick email to let you know the Coloured Pencil Painting of the Wolves that was in the finals for The Wildlife Artist of the Year received a Commendation in the World Mammal Category. I am so thrilled especially as its a coloured pencil work !!! I have added the image as you requested last time we spoke. I hope it will be of interest to the other coloured pencil members.

 

 

A REMINDER!
On the 4th August, Victoria will be running a Workshop at The Anglian Wolf Centre in Bedfordshire. The day course is entitled "Art and Photography Day", and will be run by Victoria and a very talented Cambridge Photographer, Jim Gintner. As well as tuition in all types of coloured pencil techniques and the techniques of Photography, the day will include a walk with one of the female wolves in the pack. This is a rare opportunity to get in close contact with these beautiful, graceful animals. There will be unlimited photo opportunities throughout the day. The cost of the day will be £50.00. All the proceeds from this workshop will go to wolf conservation.
For further details of the Workshop,  Victoria can be contacted by email, victoriaparsons51@hotmail.com,
vickimoonwolf@gmail.com or phone 01788 822938.

Liz Bennett - Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Competition

Congratulations to UKCPS member, Liz Bennett, who has sent in the following report:

I have relatively recently taken up cp, and my printmaking tutor saw some of them and suggested I submit them to the Rootstein Hopkins drawing competition. This is a competition/exhibition exclusively for drawings, made by people who are taking part time art courses in London.

I submitted one - a street scene in Porto - and it has been accepted, and selected to be in the brochure for the exhibition.

 I suspect this is because it is the only cp drawing they received; it is certainly the only one in the brochure. It may well be the first that has ever been submitted for this prize.

The exhibition runs in May and June and prizes will be awarded by Maggie Hambling, who is the chair of the judging panel. I doubt very much that I will win a prize as I have seen the quality of the competition! But I think it is good for cp that it will be there.

Victoria Parsons - BBC Wildlife finalist

Congratulations to UKCPS Member, Victoria Parsons, who has two CP works shortlisted for the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 Competition.

Victoria has sent in this report:-

Two of my coloured pencil paintings were selected from over 1,400 International entries, which according to the BBC Wildlife Magazine, was a record number of entrants. There are 8 Categories in the Competition, and an overall winner.

The categories cover all wildlife in the UK and worldwide. The first image is in the World Mammal Category, and shows multiple images of my favourite animal, the Wolf. The images are worked on a black pastel paper with pure coloured pencils.

The second image is of an Indonesian Tiger, and is titled "Indonesian Prince". This coloured pencil painting is in the endangered species category.

The wolf image was constructed using drawings and colour notes that I had taken on site. I am a core member of The Anglian Wolf Society, where I work during the week to help other core members to look after the pack. At the moment, I am unable, due to competition rules, to send you the images. However, after the final judging which takes place in May, I will then be able to send them to you.

Just a quick note, On the 4th August, I am running a Workshop at The Anglian Wolf Centre in Bedfordshire. The day course is entitled "Art and Photography Day", and will be run by myself and a very talented Cambridge Photographer, Jim Gintner.

As well as tuition in all types of coloured pencil techniques and the techniques of Photography, the day will include a walk with one of the female wolves in the pack. This is a rare opportunity to get in close contact with these beautiful, graceful animals. There will be unlimited photo opportunities throughout the day. The cost of the day will be £50.00. All the proceeds from this workshop will go to wolf conservation.

For further details of the Workshop, I can be contacted by email, victoriaparsons51@hotmail.com, vickimoonwolf@gmail.com or phone 01788 822938.

Isobel Buckley - Ken Bromley Winner!!

Many congrats to UKCPS member, Isobel Buckley for winning this year's Ken Bromley Cover Picture Competition.

Isobel's picture of a sleeping Lion will appear on the new catalogue for Ken Bromley Art materials.

Isobel is quoted:
"I have always had a passion for art since I was a little girl and I was very fortunate to have parents who encouraged me with this. Even as a child I loved painting and drawing and always liked producing pictures which captured detail. I followed this love of art to University where I studied Fine Art with American Studies. After University I spent a few years concentrating on studying to become a teacher and for a Master of Arts in Education. It was then my Mum who encouraged me back into art and thanks to her I found I had a passion for wildlife and animal art. It began when she introduced me to an artist called Vic Bearcroft who I found inspirational. After attending a workshop he was running I was hooked on drawing animals and pastels. It was actually during this workshop held at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent that I had an opportunity to look around and take photographs of the big cats there. The piece ‘Sleeping Lion’ was actually inspired from one of the photographs I took there after watching the lions devour their lunch and then turn very sleepy.
Shortly after this I decided to explore some other mediums and discovered coloured pencils, and I haven’t looked back! While I have different brands of coloured pencils, my absolute favourites are Prismacolour which I find produce a lovely buttery consistency. I spend many hours building up layers of colours to produce pictures which contain those details which I find myself compelled to achieve. I find they are a wonderful medium for drawing animals, and a lot of people are amazed to find out that coloured pencils can achieve such alluring effects.
While I spend a lot of my time teaching and with my family, I spend a vast amount of my spare time drawing and painting. I have recently updated my website www.izzysart.co.uk and I have created a Facebook page www.facebook.com/izzysart1. I am currently in the process of producing my first set of prints to sell and other examples of my artwork can be found on these pages. I am also planning to continue to produce lots more pictures of animals as beautiful as the lion in the future.
I consider myself very lucky to be blessed with such a wonderful passion, and I’m honestly stunned and over the moon that so many people voted for my picture, so a very big thank you to them."
Website: www.izzysart.co.uk
Facebook:www.facebook.com/izzysart1

Susan Goodall - SAA award

Good news for UKCPS member, Susan Goodall, who has been awarded a certificate for Best Professional Animal or Wildlife artist in the Society for All Artists [S.A.A] Artist of the Year Competition 2012.

Susan's picture (shown right) is entitled ' Wake Up'.